Copyright 2012 The Legal Project Wed, 16 May 2012 10:16:13 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The Legal Project :: Writings http://www.legal-project.org huff@meforum.org (The Legal Project) webmaster@meforum.org en-us http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2012/05/lawfare-reaches-germany Sun, 6 May 2012 15:05:04 EST Now Germany has its own version of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in Austria – Michael Mannheimer has undergone legal prosecution for making statements about Islam displeasing to Muslims and their politically correct http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2012/04/danish-supreme-court-acquits-hedegaard Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:24:46 EST On April 20, 2012 in a 7-0 decision, the Danish Supreme Court acquitted Lars Hedegaard of violating Article 266(b), the infamous "hate speech" provision of the Danish penal code. Hedegaard's case has been winding its way through the courts for some time http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2012/04/hedegaard-trial-begins Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:40:39 EST Once again, freedom of speech is under attack in Europe. Lars Hedegaard's appeal to the Danish Supreme Court will be heard April 13th along with the prosecutor's cross-appeal seeking a higher fine. Court proceedings are anticipated to wrap up the same http://www.legal-project.org/2415/round-three-of-the-trial-of-lars-hedegaard Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:56:20 EST In Denmark, sticks and stones may break your bones, but insulting words will get you fined — to the tune of 5,000 kroner (or about $1,000). Article 266(b) of the Danish penal code, one of the more sweeping of the "hate speech" provisions, criminalizes, http://www.legal-project.org/2309/free-speech-vs-islamists-why-the-west-is-losing Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:19:15 EST Recently, Salman Rushdie did not attend a literature festival in India after Indian authorities warned him he was a potential target of assassins, and after numerous protests by various Islamist groups. This is not the first time that Mr. Rushdie found http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2012/02/lp-fellow-ann-snyder-speaks-at-a-capitol-hill Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:07:07 EST On February 7, 2012, LP Fellow Ann Snyder spoke at a Capitol Hill Policy Seminar called The Istanbul Process and the OIC's Continuing Efforts to Implement Restrictions to Prevent "Defamation of Islam." The event was sponsored by the Endowment for Middle http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2012/02/the-strange-views-of-mr-quraishi-and-their Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:05:41 EST In response to an earlier blog post about him, Bashy Qurashi has left comments on several websites, including MEF's. Former Legal Project Law Clerk, Andrew Harrod, has written another piece to directly reply to Qurashi's new comments. Here it is: The http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2012/02/disinformation-and-lawfare-the-al-dura-cases Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:59:57 EST Wars have rarely been won by using a single tactic, and this holds true for current non-military campaigns, including those waged by the use of legal warfare, or lawfare. When the goal of a campaign is to widely disseminate disinformation, legal http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2012/02/the-osce-yet-another-avenue-for-islamists-to Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:59:02 EST Although more attention goes to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) prominent attempts to police speech in Western nations regarding Islam-related topics through the UN and the "Istanbul Process", Muslim and Islamist desires to restrict http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2012/01/north-american-muslims-join-efforts-to-support Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:28:33 EST Politics can be a dangerous business in Pakistan. As the "memogate" controversy shows no signs of abating, a group of American and Canadian Muslims joined the push for U.S. government intervention on behalf of Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani http://www.legal-project.org/2058/thought-control-on-islam Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:55:46 EST January 10, 2012 was a big day for terrorist Anders Breivik, the diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic (but now being reevaluated), who on July 22, 2011, bombed the Norwegian Prime Minister's office and, soon after on that same day, gunned down about seventy http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2011/12/update-on-state-department-oic-conference-in-dc Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:37:29 EST The Legal Project recently reported that the Obama Administration would be holding meetings this week in Washington on "implementing" UN Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18. (See Why is the Obama Administration Giving the OIC a Say in Our Right to Free http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2011/12/why-is-the-obama-administration-giving-the-oic Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:27:47 EST Starting on December 12th in Washington, DC, a meeting is being held that jeopardizes freedom of speech as we currently understand it in the United States. The Obama Administration has invited the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC," http://www.legal-project.org/1904/once-again-islamists-bully-europe-on-free-speech Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:29:19 EST Recently, French Islamists (presumably) firebombed the office of French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo for its speech. Simultaneously, Charlie Hebdo's website was also taken down in a cyber-attack by a Turkish hacker. The firebombing and hacking http://www.legal-project.org/1736/david-letterman-gets-it-exactly-right Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:55:05 EST Kudos to American television comedian David Letterman! On June 5, 2011, Letterman smiled and drew his finger across his own throat on his CBS program "Late Show with David Letterman" to celebrate the U.S. military's reported killing of Ilyas Kashmiri, an http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2011/10/gmu-law-holds-its-ground-on-free-speech Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:03:04 EST At a time when many educational institutions have succumbed to mildewing political correctness and cower in the face of pressure to censor controversial speech, at least one school still maintains free and open debate on campus. That school is George http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2011/09/geert-wilders-acquittal-an-important-first-step Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:23:48 EST On June 23rd, the Amsterdam District Court acquitted Dutch MP Geert Wilders, bringing to a close a nearly two-year ordeal. The decision was a clear victory for Wilders who had faced both fines and imprisonment for charges of "group defamation" and http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2011/06/wilders-in-wonderland Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:24:36 EST At Big Peace, Ned May imaginatively compared the Austrian "hate speech" trial of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff for her comments regarding Islam to the infamous Trial of the Stolen Tarts, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This fictional trial is a http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2011/05/another-bite-at-the-apple-hedegaard-found-guilty Tue, 10 May 2011 15:48:13 EST Last week, Lars Hedegaard, president and founder of the Danish and International Free Press Societies was convicted of "hate speech" under Article 266 b of the Danish penal code and fined the equivalent of about $1000. (See IFPS's press release here.) http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2011/04/time-to-take-a-stand-for-free-speech Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:56:18 EST In 2011, fringe Florida Pastor Terry Jones finally burned a Koran in Florida. He had first threatened to burn a Koran the year before but had been persuaded to desist by the pleas of numerous prominent Americans, especially members of our governing elite